This one looks like it needs to sit a bit taller and have some off-road tires on it and some spares in that hatch. Kinda reminds me of an old version of some of the Dakar "cars" of the last while.

I actually really like this one, it looks like someone had a weird kit GT car in a barn and then saw a picture of a Chaparral and was like "hey, we could do something like that with it!"

Do we have names for them?

These cars are part of a golden era of Argentine motorsport of the late 60's and early 70's, that were raced in the TC and in the Sport Prototipo Argentino.
The regulations were always very free the first years demanded the use of the front windshield of the road car from which they derived, some years later demanded a minimum height then appeared the egg shape of the roof of some cars and finally nothing and also arrived the spyders.
Some of the cars were Pronello-Ford, Berta LR, Torino Liebre MK I,MK II,MK III, Gentile-Chevrolet, Baufer-Chevrolet, Numa-Tornado, Chelco-Chevrolet etc.

But it never was, it was always going to look different, and therefore to people who don't like change, horrible.

It's purpose designed it, and I happen to think it looked, cool, ground-breaking and unique. It piqued my interest, and I had littler interest in sportscars before then. Same as the fwd Datsun did.

There is a consistent theme here that cars that were radical but failed must have looked awful.

If you painted most P1 and P2 cars white and asked 99% of casual motorsport fans what each car was they might get lucky, but most would not be able to differentiate a Toyota from a Porsche. Or a later Audi from a Porsche or Rebellion.

But a Nissan GTR or Deltawing would be easy, and results not withstanding, that was the point, it was marketing and an engineering exercise, that if results came, fine, but not the priority.

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This used to be such a vibrant place. Unless you are Oz or like 24h races whats the point now?

I must say the dome on the DW was awful. But I like the Nissan, conceptually and aesthetically, but the word of the day with that thing was 'rushed'. Unfortunate really, it would've made for an interesting addition to P1.